Want to be a part of the last two historic Space Shuttle missions before NASA retires the Space Shuttle Program forever? Thankfully, you will not need any special training to become an astronaut. You will, however, need to know how to upload a picture of yourself to NASA.

NASA has launched a program called, Face in Space, that gives the Earthbound man and woman a chance to send their image up into space as the shuttle crew conducts their final two missions (STS-133 and STS-134) scheduled for later this year.

All you need to do is visit the Face in Space website and fill out the appropriate information and submit an image of yourself in either JPG or GIF format, “which will be flown aboard the space shuttle,” says the official NASA description of the program. Then after the missions have completed, you will then have the opportunity to download a Flight Certificate to commemorate the last shuttle missions and your part in them.

Sadly, while Face in Space may not exactly feel like becoming a real astronaut, just think of it this way: You can send yourself into outer space and you don’t have to worry about eating dehydrated food or getting sick from all those Zero-G simulator flights.

Reader Comments

Griffin

Really? This seems like such a waste. So they’re going to take some USB stick with a bunch of jpgs into space. I should hope NASA has better things to do with their time and money than plan meaningless “events” such as this.